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Mesa installation on Linux

11-15-2012, 03:51 PM

Hi,

I am trying to install and use VTK on my 32-bit linux machine (EC2 instance on AWS).
I was getting an error which i realized was because I did not have openGL/Mesa installed on my machine.
So i installed Mesa using the following command: sudo apt-get install mesa-common-dev
Now, I dont know where mesa is installed on my machine. There is no folder 'mesa' in /usr/lib/ and there is no libGl.so anywhere.
Can anybody please tell me how to proceed further?

Thanks for the reply, but I am still unable to locate the mesa directory. It is not present in either of the locations you mentioned.
Can you tell me how to install it manually, I tried doing that but I am unable to build using ./configure.
If you can help me get precompiled libraries for mesa, that would be great too.

Comment

Did you install (or remove and reinstall if already there) the two additional packages I mentioned ?

I am so sorry I wasted your time, I was trying to look for that folder without installing the package.
I have the libGL.so.1 now, I can proceed further with VTK installation.
Thanks a lot for your help and sorry again.